MOZART Complete Flute Quartets
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Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Alpha
Magazine Review Date: 09/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 57
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ALPHA204
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Flute Quartet |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Juliette Hurel, Flute Quatuor Voce Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
Author: Nalen Anthoni
Juliette Hurel is an excellent flautist, warm and clean of tone, but a musician whose insight is often circumscribed by emotional reticence. The strings tend to follow her lead, and a jointly impersonal view of K285 sets the ball rolling. Bland playing glosses over the modulation to A minor in the development of the first movement and although the rhythm of the finale is good, the dynamic range is narrow. Most affected is the B minor Adagio. Hurel & Co are a touch prosaic, leaving Emanuel Pahud to reveal the poetry of this profound slow movement. Interpretative constraints similar to those in K285 are heard in other quartets too, the exception being K 285b. It’s a shining exception, of artists stepping out of templates, taking personal responsibility to go beyond the notes to find the moods, colour and potency inherent in the music – which Michala Petri (recorders) does in all four works.
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